Port. of Dumont signed by Claude Baron after Alexander Kucharski, with Jean Michel Moreau le jeune named as additional engraver. Head-piece with coat of arms at dedication to marquis de Marigny engraved by Pierre-Philippe Choffard. Etched head-piece view of St. Peter's by Israel Silvestre, from "Eglises des stations de Rome" (originally published 1640s). Plates after Dumont's drawings engraved by Claude René Gabriel Poulleau and others (Jean-Baptiste Bichard, Charpentier, Michel Loyer, Michelinot, François Noël Sellier, Gustave Taraval)

Three plates are extracts from the registers of the Académie royal d'architecture concerning Dumont's work

Getty c. 2 measures 46 cm. and contains 98 plates rather than 100. Both copies include the main sequence of plates numbered 1-70, but c. 2 lacks four plates included in c. 1: Profils en grand de l'ordre dorique de la place ovale devant St. Pierre ; Coupe intérieure prise sur la croisée de St. Pierre... ; Plan général d'un parc où l'on a placé l'Eglise de St. Pierre... ; Projet d'un bosquet dans les mêmes formes que le plan des corridors de St. Pierre... Copy 2 includes two plates lacking in c. 1: an etching of main altar of St. Peter's by Juan Dolivar (1641-1692) ; a list of works by Dumont available for purchase from the author or from Joulain père et fils, with head-piece by Jean-Laurent Legeay. On the list the present work is said to comprise 92 leaves

In c. 1 the plate entitled "Coupe intérieure prise sur la croisée de St. Pierre de Rome" was engraved by Sellier, in c. 2 by Poulleau

Binding, c. 1: calfskin, rebacked. Double fillets along margins of boards, fleurons at corners. Title in gilt on spine label. Page edges red. Engraved bookplate of L.E. Midy, engraved by Gouel (active Rouen, 1770/80; see Meyer-Noirel, L'Exlibris, p. 125)

Binding, c. 2: modern marbled paper, backed in goatskin. Hand-written spine label

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